Global municipal waste is rising faster than the infrastructure, financing and institutions built to manage it. The World ...

Solid waste management encompasses the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste materials, alongside policies and technologies designed to reduce environmental harm. Systems range from ...

As Mongolian consumption increases, the capital, and its municipalities need a working mechanism to manage the growing amount of waste. Mongolia’s waste sector is in dire need of not only policy ...

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an innovative urban food waste management framework by analyzing food waste data from 29 large cities ...

Plastic is now becoming as much of a problem as it has been a solution. Some say the global plastic waste crisis has reached a critical tipping point, that the oceans are swimming with microplastics, ...

The proverbial "reduce, reuse, and recycle" approach to waste disposal is easier said than done. In the past few decades, global conservation initiatives have tried to promote an eco-friendlier ...

With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Six months after assuming office with the promise of transforming the state capital’s waste management system on the lines of the famed Indo ...